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How can our democracy thrive if all citizens embrace blatant lies?

A trader hawking his goods at Kakamega town during Christmas day. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Last Friday, June 9th, was a day of simultaneous disasters for two men who for half a decade imagined they ruled the world: Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

The latter was issued with a 49-page indictment with 37 charges related to his hoarding of military, nuclear and intelligence secrets in boxes in the bathroom and ballroom of his Florida home.

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